Shoeing-stand



(No Model.)

J. J. HALSTEAD.

SHOEING STAND.

No. 399,886. Patented Mar. '19, 1889.

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JOHN JAMES I-IALSTEAD, OF KESLERS CROSS LANES, VEST VIRGINIA.

SHOEING-STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,886, datedMarch 19, 1889.

Application filed March 30, 1888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN JAMES I-IALSTEAD, of Keslers Cross Lanes, in the county of Nicholas and State of lVest Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoeing- Stands, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improved shoeing-stand; and it consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention, the lid of the toolbox being partially open. Fig. 2 is a detail side View of the base and upright. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section through the rest or seat, part of a horses fore-leg and hoof being shown in dotted linesoc therein in position to receive the shoe and in dotted lines y in position for clinching the nails. Fig. I is a detail View of the keeper, by which the leg is held in the rest or seat; and Fig. 5 is a side view.

In carrying out my invention I form the rest or seat A usually, as shown, in a box-like construction, B, which latter is recessed in its up per sides, opening out of one end, and thereby fitted to receive the lower portion of the front or of the rear leg of a horse. It is preferred to suitably cushion or pad the rest and the under side of the keeper 0, as thereby the animal is rendered more comfortable, and is 0011- sequently more likely to stand still, as desired. At its open end the box Bis conformed to the bottom of a hoof, as shown, and the end of the boX, at l), and the portion of the seat A, at 60, immediately adjacent thereto is iron bound, as shown.

The keeper 0 serves to retain the leg in the seat, and is detachably and adjustably connected with the box, so that it can be removed therefrom to permit the placing or removal of the leg, and may be set at different points along said box to secure the fore or hind leg of an animal, as well as to properly secure legs of different sizes, as may be desired. In the construction shown I form the sides of the seat with slots 0 C fitted to receive the keeper O, the former, C, serving, ordinarily, to receive the clamp to hold the fore and the latter, C to hold the hind legof an animal,

Serial No. 268,998. (No model.)

and, by preference, I connect these slots by grooves or ways These grooves or ways C are provided by forming or securing ribs or flanges O, projecting in from the upper edges of the" sides of box '13 and narrow ing the upper open end of such box, and so forming the grooves or ways 0 below such ribs or flanges. Manifestly but one of the slots 0 C may be provided; but I prefer to use both slots, as shown. The keeper C, as shown, has a portion, a, fitted to enter the slots 0 C and the grooves C and maybe adjusted to any suitable position. To secure this keeper I provide a lock therefor, which lock may be, as shown, a pin, D, passed through an opening, (I, in the bar B into an opening in the clamp, or may be any other form of locking device suitable to secure the keeper to the box. A

The upright or standard E, mounted on base F, forms a support for the rest or seat, and has its upper end capped at f with iron toform a surface 011 which the horseshoe-nails may be clinched, when desired. The rest or seat has a depending socketed portion, G, which fits on the standard, so that the rest may be adjusted to different heights to suit different-sized horses, and it may be secured in position by clamp 9, formed of a set-screw turned through portion G and bearing against the standard.

I11 use the horses leg may be secured in the seat or rest, with the hoof projected slightly beyond the same, as shown in dotted lines 00, Fig. 3, and the hoof be dressed, the shoe applied, and the nails driven, such nails being turned outward by contact with the iron I). The nails may then be cut and the hoof adjusted to the dotted position y,(shown in said Fig. 3,) when the nails maybe clinched against iron b; or, manifestly, if desired, the hoof may be removed from the seat, such seat taken from the standard, and the hoof be rested on be conveniently opened and closed by the Workman whether he is working on one or the other side of the stand.

The apparatus will be found useful and of. importance, inasmuch. as it not only saves the horseshoer from the strain of supporting the foot of the animal and the liability to injury incident thereto, but also provides for more firmly and more steadily supporting the hoof, so that the shoe can be better secured and more quickly than when the foot is supported in the usual manner.

It will also be understood that in the use of my invention the leg, instead of being held in the rest or seat by the keeper 0, may rest in the seat in advance of and bearing at the joint against the front side of such keeper, so that the horse may readily remove his legfrom the seat.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. A shoeing-stand having a box-like seat or rest, the Walls of which are provided with grooves or ways 0 combined with the keeper having portions fitted to said grooves 0 whereby the keeper may be adjusted in said grooves within the seat or rest, and a lock for securing said keeper, substantially as set forth.

2. In a shoeing-stand, a seat or rest having its walls slotted at 0 C the keeper having portions fitted to said slots, and a lock for securing said keeper, substantially as set forth.

3. In a shoeing-stand, the rest or seat having its walls provided with a slot for the entrance of the keeper, and with a groove, 0 intersecting said slot, and the keeper having portions fitted to the slot and groove, substantially as set forth.

The above specification of my invention signed by me in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN JAMES HALSTEAD.

Witnesses:

P. B. TURPIN, SoLoN C. KEMON. 

